Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous